Emerging Adult Risky Sexual Behavior Predicted by Parental Overprotection: Moderated Mediation Analysis

Rogers, Mary Moussa; McKinney, Cliff

doi:10.1111/famp.12394

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“…Specific to research on children’s substance use and delinquency, relationship qualities and dynamics that characterize the parent–adolescent bond—such as attachment security or perceived familial support—are protective factors during adolescence and across the transition to adulthood (Bell et al, 2000; Dixon et al, 2008). As youth explore an increasingly complex social landscape that includes information about socially accepted behavior, parents serve as role models that shape young peoples’ risk-taking choices (Rogers & McKinney, 2019; Oetting & Donnermeyer, 1998; Wood et al, 2004). Importantly, parents influence their children’s decision-making throughout both childhood and adolescence, and evidence indicates that close and supportive parent–child relationships are associated with fewer child risk behaviors overtime (Ohannessian et al, 2016; Padilla-Walker & Son, 2019; Russell & Gordon, 2017).…”

Section: Mothers Fathers and Adolescent Risk Behaviorsmentioning

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Longitudinal transmission of risk behaviors between mothers, fathers, and adolescents.

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Russell²

2023

Journal of Family Psychology

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Despite the critical need to understand the processes and predictors behind adolescent substance use and risk behaviors, research has focused primarily on individual predictors rather than family dynamics, and mothers rather than fathers. Family systems theory would suggest that children are impacted both directly by parents' behavior (e.g., modeling risk behaviors) and indirectly by their parents' behaviors toward one another (e.g., coparenting) and their relationships with their parents (mother-child and father-child closeness). This article investigates links between parental substance use at child age 9 and children's substance use and delinquent behaviors at age 15, and relational mediators of these associations (coparenting, parent-child closeness). Data from 2,453 mothers, fathers, and children from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study (Reichman et al., 2001) were analyzed. Fathers' drug and alcohol use at child age 9 were not directly associated with adolescent risk behaviors at age 15, but his drug use was associated with adolescent substance use indirectly via its influence on maternal coparenting and thereafter father-child closeness. Mothers' alcohol and drug use were both directly associated with later adolescent drug use and delinquency, and indirectly with delinquency via their associations with fathers' coparenting and thereafter mother-child closeness. Implications of the findings for intervention and prevention as well as future research are discussed.

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